range tree
would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from
every little censer it holds up to the air.--_Beecher._

All manners take a tincture from our own.--_Pope._

I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty,
that give the like exhilaration and refine us like that; and in
memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and make
that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception,
the acquaintance with real beauty. They must always show control; you
shall not be facile, apologetic, or leaky, but king over your word; and
every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest. They must be
inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or
form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around
us.--_Emerson._

We perhaps never detect how much of our social demeanor is made up of
artificial airs, until we see a person who is at once beautiful and
simple: without the beauty, we are apt to call simplicity
awkwardness.--_George Eliot._

We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak
obligingly.--_Voltaire._

Nature is the best posture-master.--_Emerson._

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession,
but a general elegance of manners.--_Johnson._

Men are like wine; not good before the lees of clownishness be
settled.--_Feltham._

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses
with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved,
love measure. You must have genius or a prodigious usefulness if you
will hide the want of measure.--_Emerson._

We are to carry it from the hand to the heart, to improve a ceremonial
nicety into a substantial duty, and the modes of civility into the
realities of religion.--_South._

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill-bred.--_Sir W. Raleigh._

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of
being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.--_Jeffrey._

Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to
capitulate, hid behind its shield of bronze.--_Balzac._

Comport thyself in life as at a banquet. If a plate is offered thee,
extend thy hand and take it moderately; if it be withdrawn, do not
detain it. If it come not to thy side, make not thy desire loudly known,
but wait patiently till it be offered thee.--_Epictetus._

Good manners and good